(2012 Jun 29 15:28)Mustapaita Wrote: Syria is turning out sort of like Iraq without direct US military involvement...

Indeed. And from what I've seen, it's becoming a fully fledged proxy war. Let's see if the powers that be can claim another victory. I think they can, but I also feel their grip on power is slowly slipping.

Quote:U.S. intelligence indicates that a Turkish warplane shot down by Syrian forces was most likely hit by shore-based antiaircraft guns while it was inside Syrian airspace, American officials said, a finding in tune with Syria's account and at odds with Turkey.

Quote:ANKARA — Tensions between Turkey and Syria rose Sunday, as Ankara scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to the border, underlining the mistrust between the neighbours after the downing of a Turkish plane last month.

The fresh hostility came as Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that a jet fighter shot down by Syria last month was in international airspace, dismissing a U.S. newspaper report that it was downed inside Syria as untrue.

Erdogan waded into the row at a meeting of his AKP party, saying that the Wall Street Journal had “unfortunately published a story which is not true”.

The comments follow a report Saturday in the newspaper citing US intelligence that claimed the plane was “most likely hit by shore-based anti-aircraft guns while it was inside Syrian airspace”.

(2012 Jun 29 12:03)Peasant Wrote: Since a fair few places are reporting CIA assistance to Syrian rebels and arms distribution in Turkey I am going to engage in an edit war to keep the US flag on the wikipedia page.